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To me, [the rebel flag] represents the people who they fought to try and get freedom for everyone... I don’t feel any hate with it at all.

“They fought to try and get freedom for everyone.”

I really miss True Blood

The husband’s an idiot for not getting his wife the help she needed, and instead doing what her disease asked him to do. It is challenging to have a suicidal spouse — you love them, you want to do what’s best for them, and sometimes they get turned off of the mental healthcare system because they had a lousy

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Again, there is a difference between the word “human” meaning “of human origin” and “a human” meaning an independent person.

Everyone please email or call your senators today. It might not change their vote today (I’m looking at you Pat Toomey, ugh) but they need to know that their constituents don’t support them in this. Generally details of your letters or calls don’t make it to the representatives, but there is a staff person tallying up

One of my first thoughts in the apparent need to bleach and heavily process cotton for tampons. There can and have been costs to that supposed sanitation. We bleach everything from flour to skin to sheets. It's probably not a conscious decisions, but a conditioned response.

This is beautiful and needs more stars. When my mom died from a very rare, undiagnosed condition, the doctors asked if they could autopsy her before we took her body for cremation. Her organs had mostly shut down and were not healthy enough to be donated, but the doctors hoped that they could learn from her and become

I’m alive because my mother had an abortion before me.

So it’s almost like... These fetal stems cells are helping to save lives... Like actual lives... Like actual, living, breathing, thinking, reasoning, emoting lives with histories and personalities and complexities.

Last Sunday I went to a soccer game between Mexico and Jamaica, and I swear there were nearly as many signs telling Trump to fuck his mother as there were signs supporting the actual team.

She deferred to me, and I was happy to give her an enormous amount of decision making just as a gift and let her take charge of so many things.

More and more I am seriously considering turning my STEM ass towards lending a hand beyond just my donations. I work in IT specializing in infrastructure, security and big data. I drive by my local PP daily. Between the videos and this shit, I’m starting to get HULK levels of pissed off.

Neutered cats will still kill hundreds or thousands of animals over their lifetimes. While I wish there was a different solution, I don’t know what it can be in a delicate ecosystem like Australia. In the decade or more that the existing feral cats would be expected to live, they could cause actual extinctions of

Cats should be kept indoors at all times. It increases the lifespan of cats, improves the health of cats, and keeps them from destroying native wildlife. Also, I really do not understand why cat owners and cat owners alone have the right to let their animals leave shit, dug up landscaping, and dead birds all over your

I don’t have to think you’re beautiful in order to respect you.

Yeah, his parents practically sold him to Disney for drug money. He has not had an easy life and I really feel for him.

I remember hearing about his childhood. Abusive father, smoking, performing very adult-themed routines at comedy clubs at age 10. All that before Disney blew him up and he became a child star.